Music of the Other Germany

Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Udo Zimmerman, Siegfried Matthus–these are composers who created music in the greatest of German traditions, in an environment that, despite rampant censorship and oppression, was a hothouse of artistic experimentation.

Program

Hanns Eisler – Auferstanden aus Ruinen, Hymne der DDR (1949) ( Marjorie Owens, Soprano )
Paul Dessau – In memoriam Bertolt Brecht (1957) ( U. S. Premiere )
Rudolf Wagner-Régeny – Mythological Figures (1951) ( U.S. Premiere )
Udo Zimmermann – Sinfonia come un grande lamento, in memory of F. Garcia Lorca (1977) ( U. S. Premiere )
Hanns Eisler – Goethe Rhapsody (1949) ( U. S. Premiere; Marjorie Owens, Soprano )
Siegfried Matthus – Responso (1977) ( New York Premiere )